How to re-grow spring onions from the supermarket

Re-Grow Spring Onions From the Supermarket

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Gather your supplies. Important that your spring onions have roots. You can use anything to plant into, even just one large pot.

Gather your supplies. Important that your spring onions have roots. You can use anything to plant into, even just one large pot.

Cut the bottoms off your spring onions, a few centimetres from the roots.

Cut the bottoms off your spring onions, a few centimetres from the roots.

Get your containers ready. I used toilet rolls cut in half and folded - I learnt this from someone else's guide!

Get your containers ready. I used toilet rolls cut in half and folded - I learnt this from someone else's guide!

Fill half your container with soil, hold spring onions in place with roots as low as possible and fill remaining space with soil.

Fill half your container with soil, hold spring onions in place with roots as low as possible and fill remaining space with soil.

Add a little water. Keep soil damp. Sit containers in a larger container on a windowsill or similar.

Add a little water. Keep soil damp. Sit containers in a larger container on a windowsill or similar.

Within a few days you will see new green regrowth. When you harvest your spring onions cut off what you need and leave the roots in the soil - it will keep growing back!

Within a few days you will see new green regrowth. When you harvest your spring onions cut off what you need and leave the roots in the soil - it will keep growing back!

Here they are after a week or so. Plant them in a larger pot or garden bed whenever you like!

Here they are after a week or so. Plant them in a larger pot or garden bed whenever you like!

  • Bunch of spring onions with roots
  • Soil
  • Containers to plant into
  • Knife
  • Water